News
News Application Areas
Durable PDMS-based marine antifouling coatings
Biocides in marine coatings provide superior antifouling properties, but harmful effects on the eco system are inevitable. Environmentally friendly polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) alternatives rely on biorepulsion,...
News Markets & Companies
Extreme Coatings: New production facility in Austria
Extreme Coatings, supplier of wear-resistant coating solutions for the plastics and rubber industries, has announced the construction of a new manufacturing facility in Austria for the production of high-performance...
News Coatings Technologies
Improvement of scratch resistance
Scientists have demonstrated an improvement of scratch resistance in transparent hard surfaces through layer-by-layer coating.
News Markets & Companies
Sika: Update on MBCC acquisition
The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has decided to conduct an in-depth examination in the UK market related to Sika’s planned acquisition of MBCC Group.
News Application Areas
Improving active packaging functions of PLA films
A recent study focuses on the development of novel poly(lactic acid) active multilayer composite films for food packaging applications by incorporating catechol-functionalised layered clay into chitosan/poly(vinyl...
News Markets & Companies
Univar Solutions has acquired Vicom
Univar Solutions has acquired Vicom Distribución Productos Quimicos, a leading regional specialty chemicals distributor in Spain and Portugal.
News Application Areas
PDMS coated stainless-steel mesh for the removal of microplastics
Researchers have designed a superhydrophobic 304 stainless steel mesh to capture microplastics. The microplastics separation can be explained from a colloid point of view.
News Production & Lab
Software based marine biofouling resistance rating
The evaluation standards for the performance of fouling control coatings are based on manual inspections, which unavoidably induce some degree of subjectivity. Scientists have now peoposed a standardised...
News Markets & Companies
BASF increases its focus on renewable energy in the USA
BASF is committed to renewable energy solutions to power its sites across the United States and has entered into virtual power purchase agreements (VPPAs) for wind and solar power totaling 250 megawatts...
News Markets & Companies
CEPE: Acting rather than reacting
Global trends and challenges to be addressed at the CEPE Conference & General Assembly in Madrid, Spain from 28-30 September with this year’s theme: „Adapting to Change: The role of the coatings...
News Markets & Companies
IGM Resins acquires Litian
IGM Resins has announced the acquisition of Litian, a leading Chinese manufacturer of energy curing resins.
News Coatings Technologies
Interview: “The use of DTM coatings is rapidly growing”
Aaron Thornton, segment market manager at Eastman addresses the state of direct-to-metal coatings and the challenges for this field.
News Application Areas
Bio-based coatings with tailored release property of coated NPK fertiliser
Researchers have presented lignin and rapeseed oil-based polyurethane coatings with tailored release properties for coated NPK fertiliser.
News Markets & Companies
Kansai Helios completes acquisition of the German coatings manufacturer Wefa
The Kansai Helios Group has completed the acquisition of all assets, including all business activities, brands and employees, of Westdeutsche Farben GmbH (“Wefa”) by the newly set-up group company,...